Niranjan Malvadkar (PhD, ESMCH) presented a paper titled "Spatially Organized Polymer Films Prepared by Oblique Angle Polymerization" at the American Physical Society March meeting, March 17 - 19, 2009, in Pittsburgh, PA

The Center for Innovative Sintered Products (CISP) 2009 Industrial Members’ Meeting will be held April 15-16, 2009, at the Days Inn Penn State, State College. This meeting showcases CISP's capability and is attended by refractory and hardmetals companies. CISP's world-class laboratory, faculty, and staff provide support to the sintering industrying. CISP's capabbilities include all aspects of powder processing from characterization to shape forming and sinter.

For more information contact CISP staff at: email cisp@psu.edu

Meeting information will be updated at: http://www.cisp.psu.edu/events/index.htm

Mst. Kamrunnahar
Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics

Wednesday April1, 2009
3:35pm- 4:25pm

Room 114 Earth Engineering Sciences Bldg

Congratulations to Yuebing Zheng, graduate student in engineering science and mechanics, for having been selected for the Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award in the graduate student category. The Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award is a prestitious award designed to honor interdisciplinary materials research at Penn State which yields valuable unexpected results and also to recognize genuine innovation not previously achieved.

Mr. Zheng's research discoveries include inventing a high-throughput, cost-effective method to fabricate long-range ordered metal nanostructures and systematically studied their plasmonic properties; developing a temporal- and spatial-spectrophotometric technique to investigate the dynamic self-assembly process of colloidal crystals inside microfluidic channels; introducing a new concept (and possibly a future field) called plasmofluidics to the scientific community, which contributed to the development of plasmonics-based "lab-on-achip" systems for medical diagnosis, therapy, and drug discovery; and, pioneering a new class of active plasmonic materials/devices using molecular machines.

Join the ESM Department in congratulation Dr. Zheng for his outstanding success and accomplishments.

Congratulations to Jian Xu, Assistant Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, for having been selected for the Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award in the junior faculty category. The Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award is a prestitious award designed to honor interdisciplinary materials research at Penn State which yields valuable unexpected results and also to recognize genuine innovation not previusly achieved.

Dr. Xu has developed new programs in bioelectronics, nanophotonics and semiconductor optoelectronics to the University. He leads a multidisciplinary collaboration with Penn State's Materials Research Institute, Huck Institutes for the Life Sciences, and Electro-Optics Center that conducts research on nanophotonic and bio-nanoelectronic devices. Dr. Xu conducts groundbreaking research on quantum dots (QD) and two photon lasers.

We celebrate Dr. Xu's success and the recognition he brings to Penn State and ESM.

Dr. Cliff Lissenden, Assistant Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, along with Dr. Joseph Rose, Paul Morrow Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics are scheduled to present research results at the NASA Aviation Safety Technical Conference. The research findings are on “Guided Wave Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation for Bonds” and will be presented on October 21 - 23, 2008 in Denver, CO. To learn more about the conference, please visit their website.

Dr. Osama Awadelkarim, Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, will attend the 5th Congress of Scientific Research Outlook in The Arab World in Fez, Morocco from October 23 - 29, 2008. Osama’s talk will be on “Scholtky Contacts in SiC: the Effects of Barrier luhomogenaty on the Current-Voltage Characteristics.” To learn more about the conference, please visit this website.

Dinesh Agrawal, Professor of Materials, and Engr Sci and Mech, and Director of Microwave Processing and Engineering Center gave an invited talk at the PM09 International Conference on High Performance Materials by Powder Metallurgy (organized by Powder Metallurgy Association of India), Goa, India on "Microwave Processing of Metallic Materials," (February 16, 2009,). He also gave an invited talk in a workshop on "Microwave Application in Steel making", organized by "Center for Development of Metal-Ceramic Composites through Microwave Processing" Mumbai, India; on "Global Overview of Microwave Technology in Metals & composites, (February 27, 2009)

Ms. Barbara C. Faust, has been selected as a Penn State Engineering Society (PSES) Distinguished Service Award recipient for 2009. Barbara's contributions to the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department and the College of Engineering include 16 years membership, of which 4 were as Chair (1984-88 and again 1994-2006), of the Industrial Professional Advisory Council; 9 years as a member of the PSES Board of Directors (1987-1996); a founding member of the Penn State Women in Engineering advisory board (1989-1992); and, most recently, a founding member of the ESM Alumni Advisory Board (1997-Present) where she serves as the Chair of the Recruitment Committee.

Ms. Faust is a Fellow of the Society of Women Engineeres (SWE) and an ESM Centennial Fellow (2006). Her professional career spans 33 years at GE Aerospace-Martin Marietta-Lockeed Martin and now as a consultant for General Sciences, Inc.

Ms. Faust will officially receive the award at the annual PSES Award Ceremony scheduled for 1:30 p.m., Friday, April 17, 2009 in the Kunkle Activities Center.

Engineering Science and Mechanics congratulates Ms. Faust on her award and extends sincere appreciation and thanks for over 45 years of contributions to Penn State.

Dr. K. Jimmy Hsia
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering

Wednesday, March 18, 2009
3:35pm
Room 114 Earth Engineering Sciences Building

Dr. Heath Hofmann
Department of Electrical Engineering

Wednesday, March 4, 2009
3:35pm
114 Earth-Engineering Sciences Building